Arena

[Semper]

Hello all,

We gave Galnor's "take out the arena all week and leave it in on thursday's" idea a try. Can we add Fridays to the days the arena is open please ?! Just thursday is way too short ! Especially since I don't get home till it is closed anyways.

Thanks !

[Norum]

We've seen way more people actually pking or doing smithing and what not instead of doing arena and I think that's a good thing.

[Galnor]

I tend to agree with Norum. While the Arena is appealing to many, it was taking away from regular activities.

We can try shifting the days around, but I'd like to keep it at one day per week.

[Fogel]

It might be better to shift the hours it is open. So maybe instead of being open from midnight to midnight, do noon to noon so it doesn't close during peak times.

[Semper]

more feedback ? :)

Arena is fun. Normal pking can be annoying.

[Evilina]

Arena isn't even real pk, you don't risk anything nor do you gain anything.

I'd love to see the smurf mud arena code removed entirely.

[Bollesedun]

Arena isn't even real pk, you don't risk anything nor do you gain anything.

I'd love to see the smurf mud arena code removed entirely.

*Like button*

[Evilina]

Normal pking can be annoying.

As it should be, you're not going to win every fight nor will all of your opponents pk in accordance to your predefined set of rules.

[Semper]

I disagree.

Normal pking only is advantageous for clanned people who actually care about qps ! :/

for an unclanned, we don't scalp, we don't loot, and we don't have much to gain.

The only thing I can thing of doing to make the arena more balanced is to make the time wait in between rips just a tiny itsy bit longer.

[Norum]

for an unclanned, we don't scalp, we don't loot, and we don't have much to gain.

Sounds to me like you don't like any aspects of pk. Or even if you do like the act of bashing, stabbing, whatevering you like to do it in a no-risk zone. The no-risk zone that is Arena results in a vacuum where no advancements are made nor consequences received. You can always do smithing, tailoring, herbalism, or other things of that nature if you don't like pk, they at least have in game results.

Someone might propose that Arena should have in-game rewards, but Arena as it is now is much kinder to the rogue and channeler class, which would result in being too unfair to give in-game rewards for the Arena.

[Jack]

CAN WE PLEASE JUST CHANGE THE MOTHER FUCKING ARENA TO A GLADIATOR DUEL ZONE. I HAVE WAITED MANY A MILLENIA TO TEST THE PROWESS OF MY CHAMPION, LAMGWINETTE.

[Ciarra]

Just noticed your signature jack, must say i love it.

[Semper]

there is still benefit to arena :

practice and skill. :) ALso fun not in the motions of bash stab channel etc, but just players matching their timing and speed and fighting capacities. Normal pk is fine, Arena's fun though.

[Tyson]

Yeah, as an unclanned person I really get absolutely nothing from PK! I demand something!!

[Lamgwin]

I'm having a hard time understanding what it is you guys are arguing. Is it "I get nothing from pk so give me a different form of nothing"?

[Semper]

Arguing that Arena is a different experience than normal pk. And that we like it sometimes.

Also, pointing out that most clanned people like normal pk, not arena, because they get scalps, where as non clanned people don't.

Pk is fun, Arena is fun too, you can practice more with arena, in a confined space with little time limits.

[Obould]

Also, pointing out that most clanned people like normal pk, not arena, because they get scalps, where as non clanned people don't.

Son pk is awesome simply because it's pk, when you have shit to loose and possibly gain the pk shakes enter into the equation and who doesn't love the shakes?

With no one logging on these days I would encourage the arena to be open more often than not, ai's and a ragequiting newb are the only pk I have gotten this week and the ai's put up a decent fight.

I thoroughly tested the arena out today, specifically the ai's and while being interesting and fun their scripts are buggy and seriously lacking.

[Angyr]

Arena has one good quality, it gives those of us that have played here and wot for eons and still suck at pk the practice we need to get better without all the disasterous consequences like dying and getting looted or mobbin or whatever. LIke semper i would like to see it open all the time, simply for them long hours that i'm the only one on to hone my shoddy pk skills.

[Evilina]

Arena has one good quality, it gives those of us that have played here and wot for eons and still suck at pk the practice we need to get better without all the disasterous consequences like dying and getting looted or mobbin or whatever. LIke semper i would like to see it open all the time, simply for them long hours that i'm the only one on to hone my shoddy pk skills.

Takes 4ish pk deaths and 2 mob rips to lose a lvl and who bothers to loot here anymore unless you have a unique. If your the only one logged on then you would be arena pking bots, not sure how that would help hone your skills.

[Angyr]

i suck bad enough that the ai's usuallyh kick my ass......bad